Bowen v. Howenstein’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2007
6 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Brant v. Virginia Coal and Iron Company et al. · Jeremian Van Rensselaer v. Philip Kearney · Morgan v. Railroad Co. · Utermehle v. Norment · Henshaw v. Bissell
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[It] must be presumed that Congress, in the enactment of this provision, was cognizant of the general rule deductible from the foregoing cases, that a party will not be estopped unless the act relied upon has resulted in the prejudice of him who relies upon it as an estoppel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The doctrine of estoppel in pais is founded upon principles of morality, and is intended to subserve the ends of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.